After a windy night in Cocoa we woke up to water that looked like glass. It was a semi-sleepless night, but better than we initially thought. Even though Cocoa looked like a great place to visit, the Admiral was ready to get on to Titusville to tie up to a mooring ball for a good nights sleep. We pulled anchor to find the bottom of the ICW has really stinky mud. Our boat has a raw water wash down, which was helpful in cleaning up the mess as we raised the anchor chain and anchor.
OK, after 3 days the stress level as we travel is getting lower. The Admiral and I have gotten better at staying in the ICW channel. There were no close calls with grounding and we enjoyed the 2 1/2 hour cruise past the NASA space center to Titusville. On the way we ran into a pod of dolphins which chose to chase our boat for a short distance. The assembly building at NASA is visible for 20 miles, so we could see the space center and launch pads.
On arrival, we pulled into the Municipal Marina to take care of necessities....pump out and fill up. This was our first diesel fill up and after 2 and 1/2 days of running the boat we were wondering how much TIKA was drinking. A pleasant surprise was we had only used 20.8 gallons of diesel which included running our electric generator for an hour. Our fuel burn had been less than 1.5 gallons per hour a 7 miles per hour.
We had a coupon for buy 2 get one day free mooring so we decided to sit out the weekend ICW traffic in Titusville. We will sleep better tonight after long hot showers and a meal onshore.
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